Re: Kathleen Kennedy to step down from Lucasfilm?
I must say, at about the 10 minute mark of this video I looked at the clock and thought, “what exactly does this have to do with anything?”
At the 11 minute mark the guy does discuss what I have been talking about, but then says it’s nonsense because his criticisms (his opinions) are not “subjective experiences,” as he calls them. He says this is because of something about “setting a standard” and “comparing things to that standard.” But he never explains things beyond this vague notion, and never explains why his opinions aren’t still just opinions, even if he says they aren’t.
”You CAN say that one film is worse than another, is less effective than another, it’s more poorly made... there’s lots of things you could say are good or bad and are not subjective!” he says, while not explaining these vague ideas any further beyond saying something again about “trying to compare against a standard,” whatever that means. Maybe this dude has the “grading rubric” I was mentioning? :lol
Then he admits that yes, everyone’s personal experiences color their opinions.
Then, he comes up with the idea that criticism (not further explained) is somehow more objective than an opinion, and says that criticisms “move out of the territory of pure subjectivism and into a realm where you are making good comparisons.” No explanation as to why comparisons automatically make a subjective opinion more objective...
He then admits that “it’s not as objective as measuring the temperature,” or in other words, it’s not objective. He says it’s some sort of partially objective, partially subjective hybrid. (At this point he still hasn’t explained why an opinion with justifications is not still an opinion.)
In the end, YouTube guy seems to be confused about what an opinion is. Is an opinion with justifications (his “standards” or whatever) any more “factual” than an opinion with no stated reasoning? Or to use an example, if I say that Saturday is the best day of the week (my opinion) because I don’t have to go to work, I get to sleep in, and I don’t have to worry about going to work the next day (my justifications), do those justifications magically make my opinion more “factual,” or more “objective”?
No, they don’t. They certainly help to explain my own personal feelings about Saturday, but they don’t apply to anyone else necessarily.
As for what’s ironic about this video, I’m a bit at a loss, based on what I understand “irony” to mean.